[PATCH] Enable Samba KCC for 4.5

Ralph Boehme slow at samba.org
Thu Jun 30 14:08:39 UTC 2016


On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 03:45:28PM +0200, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> On Thursday, 30 June 2016 11:12:10 CEST Denis Cardon wrote:
> > Hi Andreas and everyone,
> 
> Hey,
> 
> > > The samba_kcc stuff is already upstream but you say that it is not fully
> > > working yet and you want to turn it on now.
> > 
> > We've been using the new samba_kcc since samba 4.3.0 (it was actually a
> > prerequisite for one of our project last september). The new KCC does
> > work and gives something corresponding to the topology designed in sites
> > & services mmc. It gives us satisfaction with domains from a few sites
> > to dozens of sites. Currently the biggest samba_kcc managed domain we
> > have has 40+ sites and DCs.
> 
> the thing is I could argue the same for the MIT Kerberos support. It works 
> very well, I can establish trusts with FreeIPA, Windows etc., but it isn't 
> completely bug free, feature complete and needs polishing.

in a rush I read this as "Samba works very well, ... , but it isn't
completely bug free, feature complete and needs polishing."

How was against pushing your code upstream? I don't remember any
discussion bout this on the list.

Cheerio!
-slow



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